Dive report - Lighthouse Bay Saturday 22 August 2009

Exmouth is rockin' with humpback whales and we saw heaps of them throughout our morning today again.  Our first dive was at Blizzard Ridge and all of the usual suspects were covering the site from end to end.  A bit of a sad sight today: one of the huge moray eels who has been living on Blizzard forever seems to be very unwell.  He was listless and leaning his head over on the reef, looking very sick.  We're hoping that it was a just the day after a big eel night out, but it doesn't look good for his continued existence. In happier sightings we had sharks, rays, anemonefish, big schools of five lined sea perch, tons of goatfish and an explosion of nudibranchs. Again, this site is just so thick with animals and activity - we love it!
WATER TEMP: 21C
VISIBILITY: 10+m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 14m

Gulliver's had some very big (fat) white tip reef sharks cruising around and some smaller ones just resting on the sand. One of the big anemones has some new porcelain crabs, it seems, and its fish were going nuts zipping in and out of anemone tentacles. The porite bommie was almost completely obscured by a big school of mixed fish: trevally on the outside, snapper, sea perch and goatfish all hanging out in a big group. Several huge roughback rays were lounging in the sand and a very well fed olive sea snake languidly swam around us before heading for the surface. Another fabulous dive!
WATER TEMP: 21C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 14m